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| author | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2010-06-03 14:20:44 +1000 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2010-06-03 18:14:56 -0500 |
| commit | d8d5d482707539a4185a7639be2a7f76955c6408 (patch) | |
| tree | ebc62fc5d982fcb728a28470d901fce37d37ad08 /NEWS | |
| parent | 5cddcc901beb3643f80f401fe9b6384081ea96eb (diff) | |
| download | pacman-d8d5d482707539a4185a7639be2a7f76955c6408.tar.xz | |
NEWS update for pacman-3.4
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 37 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,42 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +3.4.0 - new "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to + installing only packages from the given architecture. Can be + set to "auto" in which case the output of "uname -m" is used + - use "$arch" when specifying a mirror url to automatically + select the correct architecture + - Installing packages with -U can handle installing + dependencies, conflict resolution and replacing packages + - can upgrade the system and install a new package using + "pacman -Syu <pkg>" + - new -D/--database operation for modifying package install + reasons + - new --print and --print-format options to output information + in suitable format for wrapper scripts + - only extract new entries when updating a repo database + - show "Required by" in -Sii output + - -U and -R options always ask for confirmation + - allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which' + - cache cleaning cleans all directories, not just first + - cleanupdelta: new utility to help remove unused deltas from + a repo database + - repo-add: handle removing the final package from a repo + - rankmirrors: rewrite using bash + - vercmp: does not link to libalpm to prevent upgrade issues + - makepkg: + - automatically aborts on any errors during packaging + - changelogs are now included via the "changelog" variable + - can override pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages + - repackaging without a package() function is deprecated + - stricter syntax checking for backup and optdepends entries + - file stripping options are configurable + - New --pkg flag to allow building specific package(s) from + split PKGBUILDs. + - build() function is now optional + - warns about reference to the build root in a package + - configure source package destination with SRCPKGDEST + - major internal refactoring of handling tests ("[" to "[[") + - contrib/pactree: print reverse dependency tree 3.3.3 - correctly check the return code from opendir() - fix possible infinite loop in alpm_list_remove() - makepkg: |